Its still got the same markup, though I should have said that it was their "top end" markup, not "gaming". The fact that they have an arbitrary markup still exists.
Thank you for taking my comment out of context. My comment was a reply to the fact that "their hardware could stand on it's own merit". That means taking fashion out of the conversation.
The only reason for this is that Dell has an extra 50-80% markup for all their "gaming quality" systems. A lot of time you can find the same builds in their business-class section and they're mysteriously 1000$ cheaper, and the only thing they lack is a video card. Its not a fair comparison because of the dell markup to gaming-rigs only.
So, paying 1800 euros for a pretty design, an operating system, and some tech support? For that much, just buy a 2nd computer and throw the first one out the window when it starts giving you trouble.
Not as much of a win as keeping them in-country the entire time. The countries still loose out overall. They're starting with college degrees already, and these people could help significantly by being engineers and such in their home countries.
Honestly, I don't begrudge them wanting better for themselves and their family if they send money home (would do the same myself), I'm just looking at it from a national perspective.
So, if these math geniuses get a degree there, whats to keep them from just moving out of country? Nothing? Honestly, if I were born in an absolutely impoverished country, and ended up being a genius and getting a graduate degree in mathematics, I'm sure I'd hop on the first chance at a big corporate job in some other country.
Its not "stuff" that I'm advocating for schools, its higher pay for teachers. Teachers in school are paid horribly, ONLY those who do it for the love of teaching are doing it anymore. We need to pay teachers more so that we can get people who are generally "skilled", but not absolute fanatics of teaching. It would raise the overall level of skill in teachers, and give kids a better education.
More money in schools would also let administrators focus on new programs for helping kids and better supplementary education for teachers to keep them up to date, rather than penny pinching to keep their school from going completely bankrupt.
Because, you know, they're all going to be in the same IP range and probably all in the same central location. Just like how we keep every missile in the US in the same place, and every airplane is in the same single landing strip. Its not like our government networks are decentralized or anything...
I always joked that highschool was like prison. Nothing to do (with our poor education budget) but to wait to get out after you've served your 4 years. Now its really going to be true, thats really very sad.
Read the article. And don't mod people insightful before reading the article yourselves!
It specifically states, in no uncertain terms that they will only use USAF computers for this. And that it will be a way to use retired computers from other sections of the government that would normally be slated for destruction.
Burma? put a dent in things? If the disaster there kills as many as expected (100k), that sets the counter back by about 5 days or so. (gaining close to 1.5million people per month). Even double that, and you still only account for just over a week worth of population growth.
Though I do agree with the rest, there are a lot of airable places left to farm, and quite a few good proposals for how to farm the ocean and coast.
Additionally: Many times the demo is fake, or a misrepresentation of the game's quality. For the best example of this, play Dungeon Lords (or better yet, don't. Also don't buy Dungeon Lords 2). They finished exactly as much content in the game as was in the first dungeon+town. Later towns lacked anything except a random structure with a NPC in it, and at least two times during the story the player had to enable no-clip to proceed due to unfinished parts of the game.
Buying a big bag worth of ballast when you land, and just storing it somewhere there (taking it out of the plane when you take off) seems like it could fix this problem.
It'd still get blown around like a leaf on the road, but wouldn't actually be too bad unless its a really big storm.
Only if they say it was a loophole. Plenty of presidents delegate to their VPs and staff... Its kind of what a company president "should" do.
I mean, how many ex politicians become CEOs as figureheads because their names are well known, and spend their days flying to exotic locations for "meetings" and sampling the flight stewardess' thighs.
Well yes, but what if the server keeps a list of people who have checked lately, and if you're not on the list, then you don't get new spore-content (ie: creatures that are auto-downloaded while you play to populate planets). Of course, pirates could just set up their own server for this sort of thing, but that'd be hard, and may require a bit for them to get one that works.(or at least a mirror-computer to serve out creatures to people)
But yes, for Mass Effect, this is exactly what they're going to do. All it'll do there is inconvenience the customers.
Ah, good old chicken or the magical zombie egg circular reference.
In my opinion, LARP is actually a good thing as it forces social interaction on a group of people who are the types to live in their parents basements.
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You must not work in the IT industry. You don't get promoted up the ranks, you get hired at another company for higher wages.
Art made by a computer, with no formula. Enjoy. http://onionesquereality.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/swarm-paintings-non-human-art/
Its still got the same markup, though I should have said that it was their "top end" markup, not "gaming". The fact that they have an arbitrary markup still exists.
Sure it will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_art
Thank you for taking my comment out of context. My comment was a reply to the fact that "their hardware could stand on it's own merit". That means taking fashion out of the conversation.
The only reason for this is that Dell has an extra 50-80% markup for all their "gaming quality" systems. A lot of time you can find the same builds in their business-class section and they're mysteriously 1000$ cheaper, and the only thing they lack is a video card. Its not a fair comparison because of the dell markup to gaming-rigs only.
So, paying 1800 euros for a pretty design, an operating system, and some tech support? For that much, just buy a 2nd computer and throw the first one out the window when it starts giving you trouble.
Similarly powerful PCs cost 1/2 as much as a Mac does, in almost all areas.
I use the term "similarly powerful" on the basis of framerate testing and how fast it can do on CPU heavy projects like folding@home
Not as much of a win as keeping them in-country the entire time. The countries still loose out overall. They're starting with college degrees already, and these people could help significantly by being engineers and such in their home countries.
Honestly, I don't begrudge them wanting better for themselves and their family if they send money home (would do the same myself), I'm just looking at it from a national perspective.
So, if these math geniuses get a degree there, whats to keep them from just moving out of country? Nothing? Honestly, if I were born in an absolutely impoverished country, and ended up being a genius and getting a graduate degree in mathematics, I'm sure I'd hop on the first chance at a big corporate job in some other country.
Its not "stuff" that I'm advocating for schools, its higher pay for teachers. Teachers in school are paid horribly, ONLY those who do it for the love of teaching are doing it anymore. We need to pay teachers more so that we can get people who are generally "skilled", but not absolute fanatics of teaching. It would raise the overall level of skill in teachers, and give kids a better education.
More money in schools would also let administrators focus on new programs for helping kids and better supplementary education for teachers to keep them up to date, rather than penny pinching to keep their school from going completely bankrupt.
Because, you know, they're all going to be in the same IP range and probably all in the same central location. Just like how we keep every missile in the US in the same place, and every airplane is in the same single landing strip. Its not like our government networks are decentralized or anything...
I always joked that highschool was like prison. Nothing to do (with our poor education budget) but to wait to get out after you've served your 4 years. Now its really going to be true, thats really very sad.
Read the article. And don't mod people insightful before reading the article yourselves!
It specifically states, in no uncertain terms that they will only use USAF computers for this. And that it will be a way to use retired computers from other sections of the government that would normally be slated for destruction.
Burma? put a dent in things? If the disaster there kills as many as expected (100k), that sets the counter back by about 5 days or so. (gaining close to 1.5million people per month). Even double that, and you still only account for just over a week worth of population growth.
Though I do agree with the rest, there are a lot of airable places left to farm, and quite a few good proposals for how to farm the ocean and coast.
Additionally: Many times the demo is fake, or a misrepresentation of the game's quality. For the best example of this, play Dungeon Lords (or better yet, don't. Also don't buy Dungeon Lords 2). They finished exactly as much content in the game as was in the first dungeon+town. Later towns lacked anything except a random structure with a NPC in it, and at least two times during the story the player had to enable no-clip to proceed due to unfinished parts of the game.
Wow, editors skewing a story THIS badly? What is this, Fox news 2.0?
Buying a big bag worth of ballast when you land, and just storing it somewhere there (taking it out of the plane when you take off) seems like it could fix this problem.
It'd still get blown around like a leaf on the road, but wouldn't actually be too bad unless its a really big storm.
If you didn't post as an anonymous coward, you probably would have been modded insightful for that.
Only if they say it was a loophole. Plenty of presidents delegate to their VPs and staff... Its kind of what a company president "should" do.
I mean, how many ex politicians become CEOs as figureheads because their names are well known, and spend their days flying to exotic locations for "meetings" and sampling the flight stewardess' thighs.
Well yes, but what if the server keeps a list of people who have checked lately, and if you're not on the list, then you don't get new spore-content (ie: creatures that are auto-downloaded while you play to populate planets). Of course, pirates could just set up their own server for this sort of thing, but that'd be hard, and may require a bit for them to get one that works.(or at least a mirror-computer to serve out creatures to people)
But yes, for Mass Effect, this is exactly what they're going to do. All it'll do there is inconvenience the customers.
Thanks, It was really annoying looking at that tiny sliver of a text-column, and the corresponding 5 pages that they made a relatively small article.
Yes, because, you know, the earth's molten core will go cold sometime a few billion years after the sun goes nova.
It just means that yahoo needs to move their home office overseas, and have 99.99% of their "branch office" employees in the US.
Ah, good old chicken or the magical zombie egg circular reference.
In my opinion, LARP is actually a good thing as it forces social interaction on a group of people who are the types to live in their parents basements.